Improvement in water-powers



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Water-Power. I 7 No. 161,!46. Patented Mairch 23,.i8 75p N\i2% I 21mm;

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UNITED STATES TENT 0.

CHARLES MONSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-POWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161.146, dated March23, 1875 application filed May 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES MoNsoN, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven. and State" of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements .in Water- Power; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and useit, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a partof this specification.

The object of my invention is to raise water from wells, mining-shafts,and other places situated on elevated ground where the water in the sameis at a higher level than the surface of the ground at a distance, insuch a manner that a portion of the water may be withdrawn at the mouthof the Well, and be utilized for irrigation, domestic, or otherpurposes, while the remainder of the water passes to a lower level thanthe level of the bottom of the well, and operates as a power to raisethe water to the surface.

I desire especially to present this device as revealing a power greaterthan sufficient for the working of its own apparatus-a generalwater-power, deriving its water from under ground springs beneath ourhill-slopes. Upon many of those slopes, where no water at all can befound upon the surface, it is sufficiently abundant-say, at forty orfifty or sixty feet belowif we can but use it. I declare that we can useit, both to bring itself to the surface and as a general mechanicalpower, the amount of which will be proportioned to the perpendiculardistance between the two levelsthat of the water-supply and that of itsdischarge. The water under the earth, as well as upon the surface, isfound at various levels sometimes called the upper and the lowersprings-and though the upper may be temporarily exhausted the lower arenot easily even diminished. The volume of our descending column may belarge or small, according to the water-supply. That supply is oftencolumn will have a fall of more than double the height of the risingone-sometimes many fold greater. I desire it to be understood,therefore, that my device includes among its results not only anoverflowing well, with all its many benefits, but also a generalmechanical power.

' In the drawing, X is intended to represent a section of a hill-side,and Y the summit of the hill. A is a well, the bottom of which is onlyone-half as far below the summit Y as is the level of the outlet of thepipe D. In the well A I insert a forcing-pump, B, having the side pipea, or any other suitable apparatus, for raising Water. At the mouth ofthe Well A I provide a reservoir, C,to receive the water as it israised. The reservoir C is furnished with a pipe, 0, passing through itsbottom, so that when the water in the reservoir rises to its top it willflow through it, and can be diverted for any purpose desired. Attachedto the bottom of the reservoir C is thepipe D, which extends down thehill-side X until it reaches a level far-enough below the bottom of thewell that the difference between the level of the bottom of the well andthe level of lower end of the pipe D shall form a head to drive thewatenwheel E to operate the forcing-pump B,;which supplies the reservoirC with water. The pipe D is provided with a stop-cock, m, for shuttingoff and letting on water to the wheel E. The wheel E is furnished withthe crank Y, to which one end of the connecting-rod H is attached Theother end of the rod H is attached to one end of the piece G, or to abent end of the pump-- handle, and the piston-rod is attached to theother end of the piece G or to the straight end of the pump-handle. Thereservoir C should have a capacity double that of the pipe D.

To put my invention in operation, I fill the reservoir C to the top ofthe pipe 0 with water and open the stop-cock w. The wheel will revolveas soon as the water reaches it and operate the pump to keep up thesupply in the reservoir C. When the wheel is stopped by shutting off thewater the reservoir G contains a supply of water for starting the wheelagain when the stop-cock a0 is opened. As columns of .water of equalheight balance each other, and as in a given case the perpendicularheight of the reservoir 0 above the water in the well may be thirty feetand sixty feet above the outlet of the pipe D, it is obvious that this(litference (thirty feet) in the height of the two columns of water isavailable as a head to drive a water-wheel to raise water to flow outthrough the pipe 0.

I do not confine myself to any particular form of water-wheel, nor toany particular apparatus for raising water. The above well-known wheeland pump are most easily understood, but the wheel I prefer in practiceis Barkers Mill, so called, and the kind in which the arms only revolve.This wheel is easily fitted onto the lower end of the pipe D. As adevice for raising water I preferan endless chain running over pulleys,to which suitable cups or buckets are attached.

All the elements I employ in my combination are old, but the combinationis novel and produces a new result.

I claim as my invention The combination of the reservoir 0, providedwith the pipe a, pipe D, wheel E, haviug the crank Y, connecting-rod H,and pump B, as and for the purposes set forth.

CHARLES MONSON.

Witnesses:

GEORG TERRY, J ULIUs TwIss.

